There clearly isn't any financial incentive (or disincentive) to do jack shit about the problem. The carriers would rather collect the fees than deal with it. Turn up the heat. Nobody at the top gives a crap about how much of a nuisance this is.
half of the combined population of USA and Canada!
Soon just half the population of the USA.
[ducking and running]
This was from physical stores
How do you think these "car rental offices and dispensaries" capture and transfer ID images? Pretty much the same way web sites take a picture of your ID. It's just using a specialized scanner. But otherwise an image upload.
allocating scarce resources fairly until such time that humanity has technologically advanced to eliminate scarcity
Scarcity is what keeps humanity governable. If you have everything you need, who can then tell you what to do? Try telling a homeless bum to stop doing something. Give him a house, two car garage and chicken in the pot and he's at your beck and call.
How will breaking search and the browser off of ads help with giving the customer a better browsing experience? And by customer, I mean advertisers. They need the market-oriented search and browser tracking hooks to capture more consumers. And they need them all to work together seamlessly.
So, she's ancient and terrible too.
DM apparently doesn't interact with itself (very much)
So, like Gen Z. Order from DoorDash, work from home. And then there's that Gen Z stare.
Don't care. I'll buy my Mars service plan from Consumer Cellular.
Those simple flip phones with the oversized buttons are easier to operate in space suits.
Nuclear plants can idle. They can do it pretty fast too, and they certainly don't "blow up" when they do.
True. Most of the problems with "throttling" a base load plant have more to do with the turbines and generators. Not the reactor itself. It takes a certain amount of steam to spin a turbine up to synchronous speed. Once the generator is connected to the grid but "idling" (putting out zero power), the system will actually be hunting between generating and motoring. That's not good for its windings, so operators try to keep a minimum amount of power going out.
We are, for all intents and purposes, a conductor for such small charges. As such, the potential needed to move those charges and equalize them is low. Lower than that needed to break chemical bonds in most materials.
I think Melania had a lot to do with no more sons.
The big valuation correction can't be far off. We've seen this movie before.
Line truck. Pole puller. Job done.
Paris Hilton is still alive?
Did they compare their Teflon findings to those of rain on bare metal surfaces? Or the configuration of those surfaces at microscopic levels?
It sounds like they are creating miniature capacitors by placing a charge (raindrop) on an insulator, seperating them a short distance from a grounded surface. In such cases, the electrical potential gradient can reach very high levels even for small charges. When those potentials reach sufficient levels, they can break chemical bonds and break down the insulating properties of coatings. Sometimes the trick is to make the coatings "semiconductive". Not perfect insulators, but with a high resistance that allows surface charges to bleed off.
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